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-rw-r--r--lib/irq_poll.c8
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lib/irq_poll.c b/lib/irq_poll.c
index 2f17b488d58e..2d5329a42105 100644
--- a/lib/irq_poll.c
+++ b/lib/irq_poll.c
@@ -188,14 +188,18 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(irq_poll_init);
static int irq_poll_cpu_dead(unsigned int cpu)
{
/*
- * If a CPU goes away, splice its entries to the current CPU
- * and trigger a run of the softirq
+ * If a CPU goes away, splice its entries to the current CPU and
+ * set the POLL softirq bit. The local_bh_disable()/enable() pair
+ * ensures that it is handled. Otherwise the current CPU could
+ * reach idle with the POLL softirq pending.
*/
+ local_bh_disable();
local_irq_disable();
list_splice_init(&per_cpu(blk_cpu_iopoll, cpu),
this_cpu_ptr(&blk_cpu_iopoll));
__raise_softirq_irqoff(IRQ_POLL_SOFTIRQ);
local_irq_enable();
+ local_bh_enable();
return 0;
}